Help How is your battery while streaming music?

[crankerchick]

What type of battery drop do you see while streaming Spotfiy/Pandora/Last.fm/etc? Since the network matters, do you stream on 3G, WiFi, or 4G?

Yesterday I streamed Spotify for about 45 minutes on 3G with the screen off and I lost about 20% of my extended battery!

 

[dguy]

I can stream Pandora for 4 hours on my 2100 battery on 3G and it takes about 50% of my battery.

 

[Sketchr]

Seems about right. I stream through sirius.

 

[crankerchick]

Thanks so I guess my results are about right. I did some more testing this morning with Pandora on 3G and burned about 12% in an hour but I also had the screen on for about 10 minutes. I presume 4 hours if scaled linearly would also put me around 50-60% depending on how much I turned the screen on.

Man, I didn't expect the battery to drain quite so much with the screen off. I always thought LTE and the screen were the battery killers but it seems really anything besides "not awake" will drain it fast.

 

[Deleted User]

All phones will drain pretty fast with a constant stream going over the data connection. 4G will drain faster, but no matter what, the phone's data radio is probably the biggest battery hog on it.

 

[AdrianC14]

When I stream Slacker Radio on 4G for 45 minutes-1 hour, my battery drains about 10%-20%. So it's pretty normal.

 

[zerocool79346]

Lol its WAY better than my Inc or Continuum were. I streamed for about an hour and a half the the other night on the way home with the screen off minus texting and lost about 8%. I'm way pleased with that.